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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:24AM (#27316484)
"The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. But we do not call it this because it is taboo."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories#Quantum_vacuum

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by hvidgaard on Monday May 31, 2021 @04:53AM (#27341830)
I am aware of the theory of quantum vacuum, but I generally take Aether to mean the old proposal as the medium light waves travel through. It has been refuted.
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